Flexible wire brush.



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FLEXIBLE WIRE BRUSH.,

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Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

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ATENE 'FFIEE DANIEL J. SCHNEIDER, 0F ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

FLEXIBLE WIRE BRUSH.

Application filed April 16, 1918.

To all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL J. SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Flexible. Wire Brush to be Worked inNumbers, Arranged and Fastened Over a Certain Surface, or to be WorkedSingle.v The following is a specification of it.

My invention relates to a brush for cleaning surfaces of removablematter the brush being made of any gage or shape of wire worked intowire fabric with open meshes, the size and shape of wire and meshesvarying for the dierent purposes the open metal wire meshes are woven,braided, spun or accomplished in some other way and finished into sheetsor rolls from which the brushes are made. and the object of my inventionis to produce a sti, strong, yet flexible brush to remove substances bybrushing them away by force.

I attain my object for this kind of a brush by twisting, rolling,folding up or bringlng otherwise together a sheet of metal wire fabricalong axis 6 7 as illustrated in the accompanying drawing in whichFigure 1. shows a front view.-

Fig. 2. shows a side view thereof, particularly of theside where thesheet of metal wire fabric will be soldered together. l

Fig. 3. shows a section of Fig. 1 along line 10 l1.

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary view of a modied form.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

After the sheet of wire fabric 8 is folded, twisted, rolled or in anyother w-ay brought tight or looselyA together along axis 6 7 leaving theedge part 9 round or square, the part 2 is compressed along axis 6 7into a round stem, this leaves part 1 in a brush form with flexibleelasticity while part 2 resists bending. Part 2 forms a grip to part 1.Part 2 may also be made separately or of different material and joinedpermanently with part 1, as shown in Fig. 4L.

I prefer to roll up the wire fabric 3 as Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 11, i919.

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shown in section Fig. 3 not exposing any out through wire ends alongmeeting of part 4: and part 5, and in a way so the wires in the wirefabric part 3 of part 1 run diagonally to vertical axis, but it may befolded, rolled, twisted or forced together along axis 6 7 1n some otherway than shown in section Fig. 3.

After the two wire fabric edges, parts 4 and 5 of part 3 along axis 6 7are firmly joined, they are fastened -permanently together solid asshown at part 8, Fig. 3.

I prefer to solder part 4 onto part 5 while part 2, after it iscompressed along axis 6 7 to form a substantial stem, I prefer to dip itinto fluid hot metal to stiffen it further, but some other means may beemployed of fastening part 4 onto part 5 permanently solid and also thefurther stiifening of part 2 maybe done in a different way.

I am not aware that wire fabric ever was used for such'a purpose and insuch a manner, and I do not claim any particular way of forcing part 1into a brush shape nor do I claim for a particular process of fasteningpermanently solid together the edges of the wire fabric parts 4c and 5of part 3, nor for the process of stiiiening part 2 further after it iscompressed to form a substantial stem.

But I claim l. A brush of the class described, comprising a flexiblelower body and a compressed upper body, forming a handle, all consistingof open meshed metal wire fabric folded with the cut edges positioned inthe interior of the two bodies, the adjacent outer edges of the wirefabric being permanently fastened together, and the lower body taperingslightly toward the upper body.

2. A bush of the class described, comprising a flexible lower body and acompressed upper body forming a handle, all consisting of open meshedmetal wire fabric folded with the adjacent outer edges of the wirefabric being permanently fastened together, the wires in the fabric ofthe lower body running obliquely to the vertical axis, and the lowerbody tapering slightly toward the upper body.

DANIEL J. SCHNEIDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. i

